CONCEPT-BASED ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED DATA USING CONCEPT INHERITANCE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide methods and apparatus that programmatically organize and analyze structured and unstructured data together, and apply business logic to make accurate determinations on the basis of that data.SOLUTION: In one embodiment, a method comprises defining a set of concepts on the basis of a first set of structured and unstructured data objects, defining a business rule on the basis of the set of concepts, applying the business rule to a second set of structured and unstructured data objects to make a determination associated with that set, and outputting to a display information associated with the determination.